Another 15 minutes of fame?

FunkyB sends me an instant message last night that said he knew I was at Raw right now and that we seem to attract the "U-S-A" chant. I believe he is correct thinking back to the baseball team across the street on Ohio Ave that mixed the chanting with car horn honking, the soccer team next door on Chickasaw...the list goes on. The chanting started that night and an immediate "look" was exchanged between Mau & I then I realize the loudest individual I hear in our section happens to be my own kid *rolls eyes*...figures huh? Skylar was more than happy to jump on the chanting bandwagon no matter what was being chanted. He belted out a few "Molly sucks!", "Rosey!" and "Batista, you stink!" copying the little girl sitting behind us.

It was a slightly surreal experience. I had no idea what to expect. It looks pretty exciting on TV but the commentary helps. You get no commentary (the guys are there, you just can't hear what they're saying), you can't hear the refs or trash talk and commercial time leaves everyone sitting there doing a sort of "da dum da dum" or getting up to use the bathroom. Don't get me wrong, it was really cool being there, just very different from watching it on TV. It seems they mic-ed the audience right around the ring because I watched a little of it when we got home and it sounded like everyone was going crazy in the audience yet when I was there, it seemed like everyone was pretty calm for most of it. Of course some wrestlers got quite a welcome and some moves sent the whole crowd into a frenzy but mostly it was pretty chill. The only terribly loud part was when Kane came out. FunkyB warned me it would be loud but I nearly jumped out of my seat when his pyrotechnics went off. I wasn't expecting him to appear out of the darkness like that and I don't know why not. Another strange thing was it started at 7:45pm yet Raw doesn't start until 9pm. Reason being, I found, was that they filmed about 4 matches before Raw that were for Sunday Night Heat...the girls, Benoit and some guy, and my favorite, the Hurricane. Hurricane and Rosey's was the best match all night in my opinion. It was a tag team against these guys that were supposed to be gay (my guess anyways) with these pink boas that did these dance moves. It was absolutely hilarious. I'll have to watch Sunday to see it again. They did a special match at the end, after taping was over, for Cincinnati. The highlight being Rick Flair getting his wrestler's panties pulled down so his ass was hanging out while he fought. It was great. We left in the middle since we wanted to beat the crowds leaving and Skylar was asleep in his seat by that point. I don't think we made it on camera too much since most of the angles used were to the right of where we were sitting (left on TV). It was cool though and I would definitely go again. I'll let you know how my many pictures turned out.

I put in a call to my friend, Ward, in Portland and found out some cool stuff. His Vulcan death metal band, Stovokor, is still going strong. They got a call to go to California to be in Trekkies 2. There is a section in the end of the film about Star Trek themed bands and they are one of the bands to be profiled in it...in my opinion, the best one but I'm biased. He mentioned it was playing on Showtime this month so I flipped around while on the phone and found it on right then. I recorded the last half hour since that is the part they appear the most in. His bands always seem to get a lot of recognition. Resist was one of the better known anarchist punk bands of that time and now Stovokor is in a movie? Impressive. He explained what Stovokor means but I'm not a "trekkie" so I didn't fully understand it. Really, I'm not...I have no reason to lie, I'm into enough other geeky things trust me. Ward's reply: "It's never too late to learn.". I suggest checking out Stovokor: http://www.purevolume.com/stovokor. Ward is "KhR'ELL", the guitarist. He mentioned their desire to do a split 7" with a band called Hatebeak that has a parrot as their singer. That was enough reason for me to check them out.